Upcoming Films Starting 2/18/22
by Gary Palmucci | 13th February 2022 | Gary's Corner
As we move to live film screenings, we will be discontinuing our virtual film streaming programs. We started this venture nearly two years ago and since have presented over a hundred titles. As more venues are back up and running, our distributors are backing away from this channel, so it makes sense to step away for now. We’re grateful for your support during this challenging epoch.
Please know that we WILL continue with our popular New Plaza Cinema Classic Film Talk Backs and Lectures.
And, on Friday February 18 we’ll be making our long-in-the-works return to “live” cinema, at the West End Theatre on 263 West 86 St, between Broadway and West End Avenue. After that long search you may recall me describing in a recent column, in the past few weeks we’ve been working furiously to get this venue ready for you. A new DCP projector, speakers and screen are now in the final stages of being installed, seats repaired, new paint applied and industrial-sized jugs of hand sanitizer delivered.
Be prepared for a quite different experience from our late, lamented NYIT Auditorium. This theatre is smaller (72 seats + 2 wheelchairs) and more intimate, with a spectacular high ceiling and an “old school’ vibe.” We encourage everyone to purchase tickets in advance for easier access to the cinema. There will be at-the-theatre sales but via credit card only. Vaccination cards, ID and masks will still be required for entry.
Oh…and the program? Our usual “cinematheque style” schedule including four of this week’s Oscar nominees: Nightmare Alley (with a Max Alvarez presentation), Flee (nominated in a record-setting three Oscar categories), and the docs Writing With Fire and Summer of Soul (a whole ‘nuther experience on a big screen, with an audience).
Also featured will be the Cannes-prize-winning Finnish drama Compartment No. 6, the crowd-pleasing US-Israeli doc Breaking Bread and the 1969 French classic suspenser La Piscine with Alain Delon (a New Plaza Cinema favorite) and Romy Schneider, which played a surprising months-long downtown run last summer.
We look forward to welcoming familiar friends and faces, and turning those lights down…
Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema